My exercise has been spot on these days, but my eating still needs improvement. I’m not expecting a loss or much of a loss this Wednesday, but I believe this fall is really going to bring everything together.
Exciting News
Run Coach Danny and I had lunch the other day, and we both agree that it’s time for me to ramp up my mileage on my walks. The goal is to get my metabolic furnace so hot that when I stray on my eating plan, it doesn’t affect me so badly. This isn’t my free pass to eat anything that I want, it just adds a cushion to soften my falls.
Last week I did fantastic. I walked all five days and I swam all five days. I did miss yesterday, but I did do a longer route today. Right now it’s just so freaking hot outside. Anyway, Danny had an idea about me leading a couch to 10k walking group this fall, and I’m all for it!!! This has actually turned into a great project for me. Danny has Run University, and I’m going to start Walk University. There are no groups in town for walkers, and I think this will be fantastic for walkers in Birmingham.
Danny is going to design the program and kick us off, but then I’ll lead the group walks, and who knows, I might even throw in some motivational talks like Danny does with his running groups. My primary focus with this is just like Danny, to motivate people to accomplish their goal of finishing a race, and to have fun at the same time. Most people that have never participated in a race, get pumped about the race and overdo it on training and get injured or burned out. Also, we’re not concerned with speed. Our focus is completely on finishing the race.
We’ll kick off the group sometime around Labor Day, and the target race is the Vulcan 10k Run/Walk on November 6th, 2010. We’ll have three group walks per week at various locations around Birmingham. Most likely the schedule will be Tuesday 6pm, Thursday 6am, and one afternoon on the weekend. More details will be coming soon, and I’m also getting started on walkuniversity.com. It should be up in a week or so.
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That sounds really awesome! I've love something like that in my area. I am definitely not a runner, so a walking group would be fabulous! Good luck with it! If I lived closer, I'd definitely participate!
That's totally awesome man! It would awesome to do this in my area as well, I'm walking about 18 miles week right now and have been thinking about increasing it a bit over the next few weeks to see how it goes.
That is super cool! I find I am way more willing to do workouts when I have others depending on me. You will do great at this if you set your mind to leading the group.
I wish I lived near you so I could join! Sounds like you're going to be a great leader!
That's wonderful news! I thought this link might interest you as well:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/04/02/heroes.mah…
I think it is fantastic when people get together around mutual interests and build a support group – a community within a community. I'll be excited to hear about the Walk University!
That is really awesome! I love the idea of Walk University. Would love to have something like that in my area.